shop floor poured

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Dad had a couple of iron barns built 45 or 50 years ago.  Like the other three barns on the farm he never poured a cement floor or even gravel.  Just good ole dusty dirt.  Dad died some 28 years ago and now the barns are rented out to local farmers for machinery storage.  

 

This year we got paid for an easement for a electric line passing through the farm so we decided to invest these funds in farm improvements.  The first one completed is the floor in the 48' by 75'  building.  We also hung a new roll-up door to replace the rotten overhead garage door that dad installed.  Those roll up doors are easy to hang.  We also plan to clear the brush and trees in the water ways to make maintaining them easier.  

 

I helped a little with then pouring of the nearly 75 yards of cement.  I don't mine telling you all, this 72 years old body is tired.  It's a three hour drive from my house to the farm (my brother lives on the farm) and when I got home this afternoon, a nap was in order. 

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              you cold store a couple hundred Wheel Horses in there,    sorry brother,      we got plans for this one.         

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I suppose I had best confess otherwise my dreams may consist of a plugged up Onan carburetor on the 520H.   My name is Phil and I went fishing while the concrete finishers troweled the floor. 

 

I only caught one but was pleasantly surprised that the lily pads didn't cover 80% of the pond like they do most years.  I was fighting wind gusts up to 52 mph. I didn't fish long because I also wanted to sight in my .380 with the new green laser pistol sight. 

 

Those miserable lily pads began to show up several years ago. Mom contacted the conservation agent and he encouraged her to keep them.  What a pain they have become.  She spent several dollars trying to rid the pond and we gave up as futile.

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On 10/30/2024 at 6:31 PM, Beap52 said:

this 72 years old body is tired

Indeed. Rest when indicated, for sure!